Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 29, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 3:11 PM CDT for Gasconade County, Osage County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2004, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Gasconade County, MO, Osage County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Owensville, MO | 1 INCH HAIL AT OWENSVILLE. |
| May 30, 3:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Bland, MO | |
| May 30, 3:45 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | Bland, MO | |
| May 30, 4:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Rosebud, MO | |
| May 30, 4:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | Rosebud, MO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 10:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 246 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 17.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
529
WFUS53 KLSX 302011
TORLSX
MOC073-151-302100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
311 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
SOUTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 400 PM CDT
* AT 311 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTH OF FREEBURG.
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A
TORNADO AT ANY TIME
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BLAND
CANAAN
OWENSVILLE
MOUNT STERLING
ROSEBUD
DRAKE
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW MOVE TO A
BASEMENT...UNDERGROUND STORM SHELTER...OR AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY
ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING.
THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
LAT...LON 3828 9205 3830 9167 3817 9165 3816 9155
3821 9154 3824 9139 3834 9138 3860 9138
$$
RP/JCThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 41 min |
| May 30, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Shelby | 42 min |
| May 30, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Osage | 39 min |
| May 30, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 39 min |
| May 30, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion | 41 min |
| May 30, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion | 48 min |
| May 30, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds, Washington | 62 min |
| May 30, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 39 min |
| May 30, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Monroe | 50 min |
| May 30, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Moniteau | 49 min |
| May 30, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 42 min |
| May 30, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Warren | 53 min |
| May 30, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 49 min |
| May 30, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin | 46 min |
| May 30, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 50 min |
| May 30, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Washington | 47 min |
| May 30, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 28 min |
| May 30, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin | 48 min |
| May 30, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 45 min |
| May 30, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 39 min |
| May 30, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 52 min |
| May 30, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 42 min |
| May 30, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 36 min |
| May 30, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 35 min |
| May 30, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 48 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.